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Monday, July 15, 2024
These are a couple of sea urchin tests (the outer sea urchin skeleton found under the spines) I recently got on the Internet.
Normally, you can find sea urchin tests on an ocean beach. When a sea urchin dies, the spines fall off and this is what’s left. (If you find more remains inside the test, you can check online to find out how to clean it out completely!)
The one on the left is a sputnik urchin and the one on the right is an alphonse urchin. You can get a lot of other colors or combinations of colors. The variety of patterns is amazing!
The raised dots are where the spines attached.
“Lord, you have made many things;
with your wisdom you made them all.
The earth is full of your riches.
Look at the sea, so big and wide,
with creatures large and small that cannot be counted.”
Psalm 104:24-25 NCV